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Hi Guys I was just watching my DVD�s of BG season 2.0 and I have a question. In show are both sides of the flight pods being used? I am under the impression that only the port side flight is being using and the starboard flight pod is out of commission. Just wondering and thanks ;-)
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This goes in General Sci-Fi -- not the Trek section.
I am not a mod, so I can't move the thread, so I'll answer it. If I remember correctly, the starboard pod was converted into a gift shop as part of the conversion into a museum. Beyond that, I don't recall.
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Peregrinus recalls correctly. The starboard flight pod was converted into the museum for the squadron of Viper Mk. II's, and the launch bays were turned into a gift shop. Also, the pod was damaged when the Cylon heavy raider crashed into the ship back in "Scattered".
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On a related note, has anyone noticed that Pegasus doesn't have to retract her pods as Galactica does? I haven't seen all the episodes, but at least one I've seen shows Peggy jumping with her pods spread wide open...
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Yeah, they've never depicted it again the way they did the first time. And even then, in the miniseries, they show the whole sequence of the pods retracting, and on the shot of the ship actually jumping, they're fully extended again.
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That's what I'm saying. Or, I guess, since I didn't actually say it, that's what I'm getting at. We've seen Galactica jump since and it seems to me the pods are always extended.
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That's possible, considering the fact that we still don't (and likely never will) know in any way how their FTL drives work. Perhaps it's some form of super acceleration, where the ship would be moving at such an incredible speed that even single atoms would annihilate it, requiring a near vacuum to jump (the ship's hull would be built to withstand it, but not Vipers and the interior). Or, since FTL jumps appear to be near instantaneous, perhaps it super accelerates only in the very beginning before actually "jumping." Maybe that's what the bright white/red/blue light is. And the blue/red does seem to imply a red/blue shift, though somebody would have to check to see if the colors actually corresponded to when the ships were jumping towards or away from the camera.
It's all well and good to get rid of technobabble to focus on a story, but technobabble does serve a function in at least it (if done properly) informs you as to what's possible and consistent and what's not. Sure, how the FTL drive works isn't a big deal really, but then you have issues like this, which stem from not knowing why the technology that enables the premise in the first place works.
Oh well.
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Yeah, but there's no issue here, unless you think that the position of the flight pods has some impact on the story.
Anyway, there's more than enough molecules in "empty" space to cause problems at high speeds.
But, beyond that, it seems clear that the FTL is of the instantaneous space warp variety, traveling from A to C without passing through B. How else could you jump inside a mountain, for instance?
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